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Bezig met laden... Manuscript Tradition (2020)door Harry Turtledove
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Real Rating: 4.75* of five A wonderful story by a famous writer of alternate history fantasies (UFOs in WWII = fantasy, don't @ me) about what the Voynich manuscript really means.... a hadadband from p66 of the Voynich manuscript, via Wikipedia Suppose...just suppose...that intelligent life on other planets is as effed up as humanity is. Also suppose that intelligent life on a planet circling a red dwarf star, one of those very long-lived things, say for example TRAPPIST-1 (just to pull a name out of a hat!) has a lifespan commensurate with its star's huge lifespan. And now, in a final leap of the imagination, let's assume that the intelligence of these beings is similar to humanity's intelligence: Brutal, vicious, violent, and self-destructive. Got the picture set in your head? Good! Now assume that the sole survivor of a TRAPPIST-1 expedition to the recently detected life-bearing planet circling a middle-distance yellow dwarf star, one of the few in the galaxy that has no binary companion, got homesick after crashing in Renaissance Italy, wrote and illustrated a book of homely comforts, and somehow lost it in the course of living out his long, long life among the mayflies. He wouldn't worry about it much, no one could read it and there's no way to compare it to anything around so as to learn things they shouldn't know yet. But the mayflies get smarter...and the manuscript turns up to torment them with its inscrutability...and so our man from the stars gets a job cleaning the building where the manuscript lives. For three hundred years. Yep, you're in Turtledoveland! Read it free on Tor.com: https://www.tor.com/2020/02/19/manuscript-tradition-harry-turtledove/ Delightful. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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From the bestselling author Harry Turtledove comes a Tor.com Original short story, "Manuscript Tradtion." Dr. Feyrouz Hanafusa is a curator at Yale in the 23rd century. Space exploration is still ongoing, and signs of life have been discovered on a planet near TRAPPIST-1. Signs, Dr. Hanafusa realizes, that suspiciously resemble drawings in the Voynich manuscript, which no one has been able to decipher in over eight hundred years. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Again, lots of potential, but just not fleshed out enough to make the story really stand out. ( )